u/For_a_Better_Life

Purchased a Seekins HIT Pro M3 in January. About once every month I have been giving Eurooptic a call just to check. I figured a few months wait would be standard but decided to reach out to Seekins directly to maybe get a more direct answer and well, I got it. Looks like its an estimated 9 month wait time from date of order but with still no gauarantee that will be accurate so it could be even longer. Devastating news haha

I have everything else waiting for this rifle and I am itching to get into this sport in a more serious manner and now it looks like I may not be able to till potentially next year. Holding $2,500 for that long seems excessive and I have a feeling Seekins may be focusing production on their new SIC rifle for the government and putting civilian orders on the back burner. Definitely less than pleased with the answer I got as I was happy to wait a few months but 9 months plus seems wild to me.

I am looking for some honest potential of outcomes relating to my 2.5 year old's concussion. I am sorry about the length, just trying to provide as much info as possible.

Last Friday afternoon (3days ago) around 3pm, my 2.5 year old girl tripped and hit her head right between her eyes, leaving a line that formed a small bump and some light bruising. She hit the corner of the small bookshelf with only her head and enough force to move it as well as a small three drawer plastic storage piece behind it. The daycare had it on video which was sent to us. It appeared like she stopped crying within 30 seconds and the daycare said she acted normal the remainder of the day.

When I pciked her up she appeared normal, but was noticeably more fussy as the evening went on. But not enough that I attributed it to be anything more than post-daycare hunger and tiredness that just happens sometimes.

She slept well through the night and awoke the next morning around 8:30 am. She seemed in a good mood but kinda tired. By 9:15 she was in my arms sitting in my lap seeming like she really didn't feel well. She ended up puking on me a couple times within a few minutes. My wife is a nurse and said we definitely need to take her to the ER. We have an infant so I called my mother to come watch our infant while we went to the hospital. Within the 30 minute timeframe waiting for my mother to arrive, my toddler got extremely drowsy and ended up falling asleep on me in my arms. She was rousable, we made sure she would wake up when she first fell asleep, but then let her rest while we waited to leave. When my mother arrived, we woke my toddler up to check on her and she ended up puking again. The puke was pretty clear liquid, maybe some mucus. After that we loaded her up and headed to the hospital. On the way to the hospital she threw up one more time and was a bit out of it on the way there.

By the time we got to the hospital though she began to act a bit more normal. By the time we were all checked in and in the room being examined by an RA, she was pretty perked up and in a good mood. They ran several assessments on her like tapping the nose of a toy and her own nose, squeezing fingers, pushing/pulling, checked her mouth, ears, etc. This was done both by an RA and a Doctor. They determined it wasn't severe enough to warrant a CT scan but they did do an ultrasound to check for intussusception just in case, which I thought was odd but I would rather it be ruled out if they thought there was some risk of that causing the vomiting. They probably did this because the injury really does not look bad and she was alert and capable and followed all instructions enough that they were surprised a 2.5 year old was that attentive.

Which leads me to asking about long term potential issues here. I know every parent adores their kid and thinks the world of how they act. Having been raised around big families I have seen all types of kids and outside of normal toddler behavior, I do think we got lucky with her. She is by far the easiest kid we have. Generally patient, empathetic, very sweet. But post concussion she has started to have an extreme clinginess to me especially for going to sleep the past couple days where she begs me not to leave her. More alarming is a clear increase in hyperactivity and impuslive behavior, with something she literally never does, and that is using violence. She has been hitting and even gone so far as to use objects to hit us when she is frustrated. It is honestly extremely devastating this turn in behavior. I feel like I dropped off my child at daycare and picked up a different kid and I am very worried and scared for her, both in the short term dealing with these feelings as well what it may mean long term for her development.

I am hoping some doctors can chime in and tell me whether this behavior is typical in the short term and should resolve and that she should return to her normal self in time. Any expected timeframes for this recovery as well as potential long term risks or things I should look out for? Again, I am absolutely devastated that this happened and even how it happened was just a fluke. No one at our daycare did anything wrong and I really like our daycare and she always has a great time there so its weird having all this pent up anger and frustration with nowhere to direct but at the universe for potentially robbing my child of herself so young. Idk if I am overthinking but I want to be prepared for any short and long term outcomes and deal with them appropriately. Any advice is appreciated and thank you in advance.